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16. All the men of the revolutiona Napoleon at last pushed into the back-ground.

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17. If it were possible for our hearts to possess all good qualities excepte humility, they would, without this virtue, have no reali merit.j

18. In order to see the world', Solon travelled in foreign countries, and he came to Egypte to Amasis, and then to Sardes to Croesus.

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20. On these occasions a man gives loosed to every passion, and every thoughts that is uppermost", discovers i his most secret' opinions of1 persons and things", and exposes his whole soul to the examinations of his friends. 21. He was the first a man who, for a month, had talked to me with smiles.

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22. In this officea Mr. Crispe kindly offers all his majesty's subjects a generous promises of thirty pounds a year for which all they give in return' is their liberty for life" and permission to let him transport them to America as slaves."

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